[mwtidd]

See i've always been a proponent of the mid game autonomous. Personally how I'd like to see it handled is as not a forced autonomous but an optional autonomous. In other words there would most likely be no times where most of the robots are just sitting or slamming into walls as we experience in the first 15 seconds now. Rather by creating a "dead zone" with a task that can only be completed autonomously at any point in the match, you create stronger looking robots. One idea of this would be making the lanes from this year the dead zones, so once you were in them your robot could drive back by itself to get a 3x tube.

With cameras on many robots now my original idea from years ago probably wont work. My idea was to have goals facing the opposite direction of the drivers, so they couldn't see it. and make those goals so they could only be scored on autonomously. However now with cameras, you could still do it teleop.